ROY LICHTENSTEIN

MY ARTIST REPORT PROJECT FOR THIS TERM IS NOT ON THE LIST THAT PROFESSOR JOHN PROVIDE US BECAUSE I HAVE FOUND AN GREAT ARTIST WHO IS WORTH LETTING OUR CLASSMATES GET FAMILIAR WITH. WHEN I WENT TO THE ART GALLERY MILWAUKEE, I SEE THE ARTWORK CRYING GIRL, I WAS REALLY THRILLED AND CHECKED ON THE BACKGROUND OF THAT ARTWORK AND THE ARTIST I FEEL LIKE THAT THIS ARTIST IS THE ONE I COULD DO MY REPORT ON. IN MY REPORT, THE SUPERSTAR IS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS IN THE POP ART— ROY LICHTENSTEIN. POP ART IS AN ART MOVEMENT THAT EMERGED IN THE 1950S AND FLOURISHED IN THE 1960S IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN, DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM SOURCES IN POPULAR AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE. DIFFERENT CULTURES AND COUNTRIES CONTRIBUTED TO THE MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S AND 70S

ROY IS A KEY FIGURE IN THE POP ART MOVEMENT AND BEYOND, ROY LICHTENSTEIN GROUNDED HIS PROFOUNDLY INVENTIVE CAREER IN IMITATION—BEGINNING BY BORROWING IMAGES FROM COMIC BOOKS AND ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE EARLY 1960S, AND EVENTUALLY ENCOMPASSING THOSE OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS, ARTISTIC STYLES, AND ART HISTORY ITSELF. IN HIS ARTWORKS, HE USED PERFORATED TEMPLATES TO REPLICATE AND OFTEN EXAGGERATE THE DOT PATTERNING COMMONLY USED IN PRINTING IMAGERY. KNOWN AS BEN-DAY DOTS, THIS PATTERNING BECAME A SIGNATURE ELEMENT OF HIS STYLE, WHICH INCORPORATED THE LOOK OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION INTO THE FINE-ART WORLD OF PAINTING. THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, LICHTENSTEIN CONFOUNDED SUCH OPPOSITIONS—BETWEEN REALITY AND ARTIFICIALITY, HIGH ART AND MASS CULTURE, ABSTRACTION AND FIGURATION, AND THE MANUAL AND MECHANICAL—TO REVEAL THEIR INTERDEPENDENCE